PanARMENIAN.Net
Bush administration planning to launch a strike
against Iran within next 2 months
30.05.2008 12:31 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The Bush administration is drawing
up plans to launch a strike against Iran within the
next two months, says a former top U.S. diplomat.
The source, a retired US diplomat and former assistant
secretary of state, said senior Democratic Senator
Diane Feinstein of California and Republican Senator
Richard Lugar of Indiana have already been briefed on
the attack plan.
Senator Feinstein, a member of the Senate Intelligence
Committee, and Senator Lugar, the ranking Republican
on the Foreign Relations Committee, plan to go public
with their opposition to the new Iran war plan in a
New York Times editorial `within days’, Asia Times
Online reported the source as saying on the condition
of anonymity.
According to Asia Times Online, Feinstein and Lugar
will attempt to offset the August attack by creating a
furor about President George W. Bush’s intentions of
launching air strikes against the headquarters of the
Islamic Revolution Guards Corps.
In September 2007, the U.S. Senate approved a
resolution by a 76-22 vote, calling on the White House
to brand the IRGC a terrorist organization.
U.S. echelons accuse Iran of contributing to the
killing of American soldiers in neighboring Iraq. This
is while the White House is yet to provide concrete
evidence in support of its allegation.
Iran insists that it is committed to aiding Baghdad in
its efforts to restore stability in the war-ravaged
country.
The Bush administration also accuses Iran of
developing nuclear arms, a claim which was rejected by
16 U.S. intelligence agencies on December 3 when their
assessment conceded that Tehran is not conducting a
nuclear weapons program.
According to the most recent UN nuclear watchdog
report on Tehran’s nuclear program, there is no link
between the use of nuclear material and `the alleged
studies’ of weaponization attributed to Iran by
Western countries, presstv.ir reports.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
